[R-SIG-Mac] GTK+ libraries can't be found

[Ivan Alves]

Dear Simon,

First of all many thanks for the guidance and more generally for the  
great stuff you do for the R Mac community.

On the environment, I have added the line you suggested to  
both .bash_profile and .profile, but R does not seem to be looking  
there (bash certainly does).  Where does the GUI R get the environment  
definitions from?  And more generally where can I look more closely to  
the startup process for R GUI as I have not yet managed to get it to  
read the ~/.Rprofile file (and the definitions therein) properly [I  
have tinkered with the preferences with no success]

On the availability of the binary for RGtk2 on CRAN and its mirrors, I  
am afraid that it does not appear in the ones I have tried (Munchen  
and the first US).  Should I be using another mirror that is more  
"complete"?

If I may, could I suggest an addition and one modification to the  
keyboard shortcuts for R GUI?  The addition would be to add "run  
function definition", possibly as shift-cmd-return, to take multiline  
commands in R, something usually done for more involved call (such as  
aggregate, merge, etc.).  Also, could the default cmd-return (or a  
variation of it) then move the cursor to the next command/uncommented  
line?  This would reduce the required keystrokes of my tipical  
sessions by half.  Many thanks in advance for considering this.

kind regards,

ivan

On 5 Jan 2009, at 15:33, Simon Urbanek wrote:

>
> On Jan 5, 2009, at 5:36 , Ivan Alves wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Installing the dependencies of rattle (http://datamining.togaware.com/survivor/Install_Macintosh.html 
>> ), I encountered a problem installing the RGtk2 library from  
>> source.  It appears that the  GTK+ libraries can't be found by R (I  
>> had successfully installed the runtime libraries from  http://r.research.att.com/) 
>> .
>>
>> I would much appreciate some guidance as to how to get R to look in  
>> the right place (/Library/Frameworks/) for the the GTK+ shared  
>> objects.  Many thanks in advance.
>>
>
>
> If you have your environment set correctly this is automatic.  
> However, from your output it seems you don't so make sure you set  
> something like:
>
> export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/GTK+.framework/Resources/bin:$PATH
>
> Also make sure you're not setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH anywhere (this is  
> usually not the case, but it appears you have another pkg-config  
> installed) and if you do (and want to use it), you must make sure  
> the framework path to .pc is first.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
> (BTW: normally you should not need to install RGtk2 from sources  
> since it's available on CRAN).
>
>
>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Ivan
>>
>> > install.packages("RGtk2",type="source")
>> trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/RGtk2_2.12.7.tar.gz'
>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2168446 bytes (2.1 Mb)
>> opened URL
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 2.1 Mb
>>
>> * Installing *source* package 'RGtk2' ...
>> checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
>> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
>> checking for LIBGLADE... no
>> configure: WARNING: libglade not found
>> checking for INTROSPECTION... no
>> checking for GTK... no
>> configure: error: GTK version 2.8.0 required
>> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RGtk2'
>> ** Removing '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/RGtk2'
>>
>> The downloaded packages are in
>> 	/private/var/folders/CI/CIUrzruqFvKG37WOj2xd6E+++TI/-Tmp-/ 
>> RtmpqK95DC/downloaded_packages
>> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
>> Warning message:
>> In install.packages("RGtk2", type = "source") :
>> installation of package 'RGtk2' had non-zero exit status
>>
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